As part of the plan, provincial checkpoints will be established in Alberta’s two major airports for international travellers who have cleared customs and screening by the Canada Border Services Agency
. Travellers will be asked to detail their plans for 14 days of federally mandated isolation, including where they will stay, how they will travel there from the airport and how they will get food and medications.
As an added check, provincial officials will ask travellers for their phone numbers and will call new arrivals three days later to make sure they’re following public-health orders. In the weeks ahead, the Alberta government will also establish a COVID-19 screening facility in Coutts, Alta., where 90 per cent of land crossings from the United States take place. Commercial carriers, or truckers – who have been allowed to continue crossing the U.S.-Canada border throughout the lockdown – won’t have to get their temperature taken.
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